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A computational electoral competition model with social clustering and endogenous interest groups as information brokers

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Vjollca Sadiraj ()
Jan Tuinstra
Frans Winden

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We extend the basic model of spatial competition in two directions. First, political parties and voters do not have complete information but behave adaptively. Political parties use polls to search for policy platforms that maximize the probability of winning an election and the voting decision of voters is influenced by social interaction. Second, we allow for the emergence of interest groups. These interest groups transmit information about voter preferences to the political parties, and they coordinate voting behavior. We use simulation methods to investigate the convergence properties of this model. We find that the introduction of social dynamics and interest groups increases the separation between parties platforms, prohibits convergence to the center of the distribution of voter preferences, and increases the size of the winning set. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, B.V. 2006

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Volume (Year): 129 (2006)
Issue (Month): 1 (October)
Pages: 169-187
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  1. Coughlin, Peter J, 1990. " Majority Rule and Election Models," Journal of Economic Surveys, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 4(2), pages 157-88.
  2. Vjollca Sadiraj & Jan Tuinstra & Frans van Winden, 2006. "On the Size of the Winning Set in the Presence of Interest Groups," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Vjollca Sadiraj & Jan Tuinstra & Frans Winden, 2005. "Interest group size dynamics and policymaking," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 125(3), pages 271-303, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Vjollca Sadiraj & Jan Tuinstra & Frans van Winden, 2005. "On the Size of the Winning Set in the Presence of Interest Groups," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 05-034/1, Tinbergen Institute. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Zacharias Maniadis, 2009. "Campaign contributions as a commitment device," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 139(3), pages 301-315, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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